Gimmicks That Make Pokemon Worse
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Gimmicks like Mega Evolution and Terastalization exist to make bad Pokemon better, but sometimes they have the opposite effect...
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8:30
And it'll be over 9,000 when The Indigo Disk dlc drops
I've actually been thinking about scooping it for a bit. Thanks for the code
Just call it fighting addiction because that’s what it is. Yeah “fighting Bad Habits”
Wait, so how much is the discount? You said 10% in the video, but the captions say 20%
ITS 3:30 IN THE AFTER NOON PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP😡
It really shows how valuable and useful some items are when a select few Mega's have to weigh their options between one or the other. Boy am I glad that there aren't any Pokemon that get to have a Mega boost *and* a free item slot. That would be pretty broken. We would have to make a new tier for them.
Imagine that Pokemon was a legendary too. Thankfully Gamefreak would never do something like that.
@@CommanderWiggins .......so, we're just gonna ignore Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire....i....i don't know if i can.
@@CommanderWigginsimagine this, but it doesn't even take up the 1 mega per battle clause
How about we make it cost a Move slot instead?
But the special move would still have to be pretty good, y'know. Otherwise it might just not be worth it.
option 1: garchomp mega evolves and makes use of its choice scarf.
option 2: mega garchomp resists any ice moves with the ice thingy berry.
Bro I saw the thumbnail and was hoping jpr uploaded a SpongeBob video out of nowhere "Why The First 3 Seasons Of SpongeBob is better than Pokemon"
It’s true tbh lol
Are you saying Pokémon as a whole? Just asking…
Early SpongeBob is actually peak, I quote it almost everyday when I talk with my brother. (Especially the “glass bones and paper skin” clip and the “ugly barnacle”)
@@Connowot387early SpongeBob is genuinely one of the greatest things of all time
I’d watch a JPR SpongeBob video
As a VGC player, hearing that Tera Poison is considered a bad Tera type is insane to me.
It’s considered one of the best defensive Tera types right now, with it being a common defensive types on the likes of Roaring Moon, Urshifu, Rillaboom, and even some Kingambit sets. In fact, the 2023 world champion won using a live orb Tera poison Chien Pao set.
Works really well on Galarian Moltres too. A bit more niche than the ones you mentioned, but very effective.
Honestly, coming from a singles player, anyone saying tera poison is a bad Tera type doesn’t know what they’re talking about
Especially in Singles, too. Alomomola runs Tera Poison alot since it's while gimmick is being Mr. Wish Clicker Jones.
Bug is also an underrated Tera Type. You resist Fighting and Ground while not being weak to Electric or Ice like Flying does.
I see Tera poison somewhat commonly because it makes you immune to toxic/poison status along with the some decent resist
Exactly. With Gliscor getting toxic spikes, as well as other pokemon getting access to toxic again, terra poison is pretty common in the meta. Not to mention it's pretty good in on some pokemon in vgc thanks to Flutter Mane
Poison is actually like a good defensive type. You're only weak to two types while you resist 5 (notably Fighting and Fairy), and you don't need to worry about getting poisoned
most of the time it's just better to go tera steel, you also get the immunity and way better resists
@@skkadoot9533 depends on the Pokemon and enemy.
@@skkadoot9533Not really, Tera Steel makes you weak to both Fire and Fighting meanwhile Poison is neutral to the former and resist the second, so there are a lot of instances where it's actually beneficial to be Poison over Steel.
Remember that Poison is easily a top 5 defensive type on it's own as is (personally I'd say 4th best), it's not like the gap between Steel and Poison is that huge to begin with
That thumbnail is killing me wtf😂😂
But also, the “worst” tera type tends to change a lot depending on what’s popular in the meta. Because in VGC, we’re forced to deal with the wrath of Flutter Mane, Poison became really common for a while.
Dragon was pretty bad at first, but now it’s almost as common as Fairy because of Ogerpon.
For a while? It still is. In today’s LAIC, we had Tera poison Roaring Moons facing one another.
I gotta ask as someone who isn't into the whole competitive Pokemon scene, how has Blood moon Ursaluna effected VGC?
@@crimsonemperor2219 It's okay. It's good on Trick Room and has had a lot of top cut showings, but its no Urshifu or Ogerpon. IMO its better than normal Ursaluna, but not by much.
Mega Alakazam is by no means a downgrade to regular Zam. Base 150 Speed is among the fastest in the game, and base 175 Sp. Atk is also among the highest in the game. Mega Alakazam can still take plenty advantage of Magic Guard to avoid entry hazard damage switching in, and Trace allows it to do funny stuff vs guys like Heatran, Magearna, and Tornadus-T. Save it for when the opposing team is weakened and you've got quite the potent late-game cleaner. In Gen 6 OU, Mega Alakazam is ranked A+ in viability (9th overall) compared to base Alakazam's C+ (75th overall). In Gen 7, the Mega is once again ranked A+ in OU (also 9th overall), while the base form isn't even ranked in OU. Then Gen 8 gave it Nasty Plot and now Mega Zam is banned in all Nat Dex formats.
Similar story with Latios actually. In Gen 6 the Mega is far less useful than the base form, but Gen 7 onward the Mega is actually preferred due to its better defenses and mixed-attacker potential. Mega Latios is ranked A in Gen 7 OU (25th overall), while base Latios is nowhere to be seen. The unofficial Nat Dex formats play out similarly, with the Mega being ranked somewhere while the base form remains absent
Yeah these could use more research
I ain't reading all that
@@MarloMaverickkthat’s literally enough
@XSoulfire no I mean this video, this comment literally just disproves the thumbnail
@@MarloMaverickk ohhh mb
I’m still bitter we got worse Garchomp instead of Flygon getting thrown a bone.
True that!
The BIGGEST issue with mega garchomp is that you're only allowed to mega evolve one pokemon per battle. So if you're going to do it you want to do it to a pokemon that only benefits from it. Mega evolving a pokemon for a trade off is a waste of opportunity cost.
This is a terrible argument. Lets say garchomp was a really bad mon, maybe it has truant or something, doesn't matter. But mega chomp stays the same. By your logic, since mega chomp is now a strict upgrade from chomp, its now worth using, despite it being only as good as it was before. Now this would make sense if both pokemon filled the exact same roles, but that isn't the case.
Cancel
@@egshwhwjwnoeowkwkw9809 Think about it this way. Imagine there was a pokemon that was functionally identical to mega garchomp in stats, typing, ability, and movepool, but it wasn't a mega, it was just a normal pokemon. That pokemon would probably have a roll or at least a niche maybe even in a different tier than garchomp. It would probably see usage because it doesn't restrict you from using something else. Mega garchomp keeps you from using other ou megas. And it could never be lower than ou because because base garchomp is ou. The megas that weren't as good on paper still got usage in lower tiers because they were strict upgrades from their base forms. Mega beedrill did better in uu than mega garchomp did in ou.
@@blakdeth Mega Garchomp DOES have a niche in ou though. It may not have enough usage to properly be ou, but plenty of uu pokemon are decent in ou. All megas restrict you from using other megas. Using mega beedrill restricts you from using the much better mega aerodactyl or altaria. Megas don't get usage because they're strict upgrades, they get usage because they're good pokemon (or not). I would argue that mega chomp in ou is in fact better than mega beedrill in uu, but thats not really relevant to the discussion. Base forms and megas are different pokemon. They are tiered differently (aside from megas not being able to be in a lower tier than their base forms) and their viabilities are independent. Whether a mega is good or not has nothing to do with its base form, for the most part.
@@egshwhwjwnoeowkwkw9809 a mega can be ranked higher than the base form, but never lower. There was a time mega garchomp was considered "ou by technicality" because for all intents and purposes it was a uu pokemon but you couldn't have mega garchomp on your team without first putting normal garchomp on your team so it couldn't drop. It's since been doing better for itself, i just checked the oras viability rankings and mega garchomp is rated as a c in ou. So yeah I guess it did eventually get A niche. I just never anticipated that because they used to tell you to never use mega garchomp.
7:54 aight there’s some apple slander is here so imma clear some things up
1) gmax sweetness does not heal any hp, it only heals status conditions, so it’s a lot more niche
2) gmax tartness is the only max move that can lower evasiveness which is a unique effect which can be used in tandem with flapple’s hustle, which sacrifices some of its accuracy for power. The issue with flapple is that it isn’t that good cuz of stats and typing, not that it’s gmax was worse
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Another pokemon that can run tera poison well in my opinion is Hydreigon. Not only does it lose its weakness to fairy and turn in intona Resistance but levitate makes it immune to ground which poison is normally weak too. And you might ohko some slower psychic type because tera also keeps the STAB of the original pokemon and hydreigon was a dark type.
Adding, it is also resistant to Fighting Type Move, one of Hydreigon's original weaknesses because it was originally of the Dark Type, contrary to Tera Steel, which, even if it resists the Fairy Type and continues to function with Levitation, immunizing the Ground Type, which shares the same weakness when Fighting Type Move does not make it viable with Hydreigon, unlike with Tera Poison which is 100% beneficial [and I doubt they will use a Psychic Type Move against Hydreigon for, well, obvious reasons]
Well Alakazam was UU while mega zam stayed uber two generations in a row so I'm not sure what you are getting at. 175 spatk + 150 speed, case closed
Few things to add
1.) Mega Alakazam never saw much use in Gen 6, but it got a ton of indirect buffs in Gen 7. It's huge speed stat now activated immediately, so it could start threatening "fast" offensive pokemon like Weavile immediately. Then trace became a lot more useful because of stuff like Beast Boost, Soul Heart and Swift Swim from Swampert becoming more common. Alakazam was maybe the only offensive mega with a good match up into Mega Swampert, pretty notable. Lastly, Psychic Terrain made is figuratively impossible to wall and literally impossible to knock out with priority. Teams with Alakazam and Tapu Lele were everywhere and there was never an easy way to stop them. Imo it was one of the better megas of the gen.
2.) Diancie never gets to play in VGC because of its mythical status, but it seriously got so little out of dynamax. Its main thing is spamming strong Diamond Storms, an amazing spread move, but when Dynamax'd it just becomes an average rock type.
3.) Poison Tera has recently caught on with a lot of Calm Mind sweepers like Cresselia in OU and Sinistcha in UU because it gives toxic immunity while not opening themselves to wallbreakers who spam Close Combat. It's niche but nowhere near Tera Psychic.
4.) As is the norm for Gen 9, Tyranitar is the biggest loser when it comes to tera. A lot of people expected Tyranitar to love tera because that typing has so many weakness, but terastalizing leads to it being hurt by its own sand. Not only that, but Ttar's typing was a double edged sword. Because of Spdef buff in sand, Ttar has long been one of the best answers to ghosts, fire and a lot of other general special threats and now you just have to throw that in the trash. It really can't take part in the defining feature of Gen 9 which sucks
no wonder our favorite tera dragon hippo prefers his hidden ability to sand stream. if tyranitar were to tera at all, while keeping his sand immunity, would ground make the most sense? it is a vanilla tera on a newly hatched larvitar and you do remove the x4 weakness to fighting. the bad news? still weak to water and grass (and now ice, another common attack type)
as for tera bug, it makes sense on Ursaluna should Katy be able to evolve her ace all the way (provided the Indigo Disk is the way to do this without having to do all the garbage that is legends Arceus) for not only defense, but bug tera blast + ground stab + rock is unresisted even as of gen9natdex, unless you count the beyond broken tera shedinja.
@@Pika250 i think TTar would want to Tera Rock for Stab Damage +keeping the Special Defense buff. So just getting rid of its dark typing.
@@TheWizardMuseither that or tera flying to at least cover it's two biggest weakness, Ground and Fighting.
@@xendra333Probably with Unnerve to prevent sand damage.
Im honestly surprised he didn't mention Blaziken. Mega Blaziken is largely outclassed by normal Blaziken since it gains speed boost...while already having speed boost. It gains more speed when it already does that with speed boost. Life orb Blaziken also outclasses Mega Blaziken in terms of damage(I think) so Mega Blaziken is just a downgrade from Hidden Ability Blaziken
That's true, this should have been on the mega alakazam spot.
That is not the case anymore, Blaziken really needs that raw power from the mega. There is a reason why normal blaziken is UUBL in natdex and Mega Blaziken is ubers
@@blazie42069 only in national Dex though. And national Dex isn't a really relevant format
In the official format , both garchomp and blaziken are better than their mega counterpart
For garchomp, speed doesn't define a pokemon in vgc
And blaziken benefits from having speed from turn 1 instead of banking on protect and being predictable(tho speed works different in gen6 and it still remained a bad competative Pokemon)
Alakazam tho ..... Trace is very inferior compared to magic guard
So, how would a hypothetical. Dynamax life orb Blaziken be
I love what you've been doing with the new thumbnails! The old ones were more uniform, but I appreciate a fresh new take every now and then.
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@@JPRPokeTrainer98you talked of Pokémon geting worse Just to Not do that twice. Just wanted to have said it
8:06 you are wrong, or more accurately somewhat right but not for the reason you think.
bug is trash offensively but defensively it is actually okay.
resisting both ground and fighting (the best offensive types) at once is a very valuable defensive trait.
the reason why it is not such great choice defensively is because the flying-type is usually better since it offers an immunity to ground instead of a resistance.
bug has the defensive niche over the flying type of not being hit super effectively by volt switch and not being weak to ice (an other excellent offensive type).
its fire weakness does not come in place thaaaat often.
Let's also not forget that Bug Tera Mew was a straight up requirement for the Mewtwo raid battle, which was damn near impossible otherwise.
So that's a point to Bug Tera typing over Psychic Tera.
Hmmmm, no, no, he's not. Nothing he said was wrong.
Trace might not always be better than Magic Guard, but Mega Alakazam's increased Speed and Special Attack are nothing to sneeze at. And Trace is really useful at times, e.g., copying Flash Fire from Fire-type Pokémon.
Fun Fact: the Mega was banned from National Dex OU thanks to, among other things, Alakazam's newfound access to Nasty Plot and the absence of Pursuit.
I feel like overtime, the natural speed boost is more important than dishing higher damage with something like LO or Specs, both which have their drawbacks
Love how Alakazam's yellow matches Spongebob
4:16.. did you say LIFE ORB?? bruh.. gen 6 they still had full power SOUL DEW!!!!
they had 1.5x S.Atk & 1.5x SDef with Soul Dew.. and you're talking about its loss to a LIFE ORB??!
to play off your analogy, that's like losing the whole country and being like 'damn we lost the military'.. yeah but we lost something way more important!!
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Somewhat related, but I wish they had converted some of the GMax moves into standard signature moves, like they did for Kommo-o and it’s Z-Move. Some of them might require different effects or name tweaks, but for most you can just remove the GMax prefix and they’d work just fine with no changes: Stone Surge, Centiferno, Chi Strike, Foam Burst, etc…
I wish they do this for the G-Max forms for when they inevitably bring back Mega Evolution in the eventual Gen 6 remakes.
Steelsurge would've been nice, considering Stone Axe isn't _nearly_ as broken as Ceaseless Edge.
@@robertlupa8273 that one has always been wierd to me. They literally introduced a brand new hazard only for it to be locked behind an incredibly specific and niche move tied to a gimmick and then axe it the next gen by proxy of the gimmick being gone.
Mega alakazam was better than regular in both gen 6 and 7, at least in smogon singles
Tera Poison is very useful to get rid of toxic spikes and avoiding poisoning, also you get many resistances and only 2 weaknesses, so I wouldn’t put poison in the worst Tera types category
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For tera, if you have the ability "adaptability" which turns your stab from 1.5x to 2x and you use tera, your stab on your non-terad type becomes 1.5x instead of 2x. So if crawdant (who is water dark) uses tera water, it's dark stab will only be 1.5x instead of the 2x it was before tera
I really miss megas.. way cooler than Tera, G-max and Z-moves.
While only a small number of pokemon could use Megas where WAY too cool and too much fun
Mega was cool because it was a way to give older and weaker Pokémon a chance, but it sucked because so many that didn’t need them got them and it was so limited. I prefer gimmicks that are balanced and allow all Pokémon to take advantage of them. Tera is easily the best imo because it provides more strategy. It can be sued offensively or defensively, with any Pokémon being able to use any Tera type so it can allow for more in depth and unique strategies. Megas are super predictable and bland outside of cool designs
but tera is a close second.
@@Themacattack1209 megas felt cooler and more fun to use. Pokemon has always been a franchise whose focus is on just that.
As a VGC player I agree how megas completely changed the game, where not very balanced and where basically your "king" piece . With that said the mega metas where the ones I had the most fun with.
Me too
@@jaretco6423 It didn't though, Dynamax and Tera have in some ways in certain formats
But yeah really the only megas that are broken in all formats are like Gengar, Rayquaza, Kanga, and Mence
Okay, but I think Terastallizing a Tyranitar is simply bad, and the mechanic could be seen as one of the reasons that it dropped tiers in singles. Yeah, set up Sand Stream and tend immediately hurt yourself since you're no longer immune to sand.
Not just that, it also loses its free +50% special defense buff from being a Rock type in sand so it's actually losing raw bulk in a lot of match ups when it terrastalizes.
Lowkey Tera Rock would be kinda good on it. Double Rock stab, plus you aren't quad weak to Fighting, no longer weak to Bug or Fairy, and you keep the benefits of a Rock type in Sandstorm.
@@FreeTempest
Yeah, but the drawback is being stuck as a rock type, a type famously known for being weak to everything in both singles where earthquake and close combat are everywhere and vgc where Lando, Hands, Urshifu, and Ogerpon are everywhere
@@Endershock1678 hey, it wouldn't be good, I'm just saying it's probably the best way to run it without being damaged by your own sandstorm. It's also bulky enough to take a hit, even if it's super effective.
Ursaluna-Bloodmoon runs tera poison at times. Immune to toxic and resists fighting attacks.
For a pokemon that was a "downgrade" Mega-Alakazam is still banned for being OP lol
Special shout-out to Tyranitar that gets damaged by its own Sandstorm if it Teras into anything other than Rock, Ground, or Steel.
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I felt the same
tera poison being here is an absolute crime tbh
I think tera Tyranitar and any sandstorm setters (outside of rock, ground and steel) is pretty bad. Once Tyranitar tera outside of those three types, it starts getting chip damage from its own sandstorm
Such an L for Pikachu especially heeding how Raichu got an Alolan form at the same time (a definite way to get its due). It got me thinking of another scene case, what if the whole evo line got benefits of some kind from the signature held items (such as whole Raichu line getting some kind of benefit from Light Ball instead of just Pikachu) or Huntail & Gorebyss getting benefits from Deepseatooth & Deepseascale like with their shared prevo Clamperl (not just doubled Special Attack or doubled Special Defense for Clamperl respectively) or doubled (as opposed to 1 stage) defenses for 1st stage of 3 in a line, for example?
g-max tartness was probably designed with flapple's hustle in mind (for those who dont know, hustle lowers the accuracy of moves by 0.8x)
not saying it's better than g-max sweetness or max overgrowth but it has that going for it
Trainer Cap Pikachu are always locked with a neutral nature whereas you can control which nature you want your own to have, making them more powerful
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7:00 Yes, he has Swift Swim for the deadly combo, Nessa is extremely hard if you don't have Grass types.
exactly. or a good enough electric, especially if it's something like light ball Pikachu.
took a level 17 max attack adamant grassy surge Thwackey to Nessa (reaching level 18 in time for drednaw) and he swept with grassy glide. put in logic by access to the DLC.
@@Pika250 Grassy Slide is OP as heck tbf
This has the se energy as saying Surge is easy because you had a Diglett with Earthquake
The funny thing about Alakazam and Latios is that their Megas end up outpacing the OG in Gen 7 because the Pool of Meta mons is so big you don't have to build around megas. Some teams don't even have one, so it went from opportunity cost being too much to literally free.
A little confused on that last part. Tera poison is super prevelant in smogon singles.
My all time favorite Pokemon since Gen 4 is Garchomp.
I was so excited when I found out it gets a Mega evolution.
However, after knowing it loses some base speed and it loses rough skin, I was just so devastated.
Id rather keep the rough skin as it does chip damage to remove focus sash/sturdy.
Chip damage is still damage. Also losing speed makes you vulnerable to damage when you could normally outspeed.
Also, if im gonna lose rough skin, Id rather hold a life orb or focus sash.
Good video as always, but i want to know what music starts playing in 03:38, when you talk about Mega Alakazam? that song is also used in the pokemon rom hack Pokemon Dreams for GBA
Omg your thumbnail is Hilarious 😂
I have a tera psychic espathra that I use for raid battles. Spamming lumina crash while holding a shell bell takes care of a surprising amount of pokemon.
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Though losing magic guard was not ideal mega zam is not in anyway a downgrade,I mean for christ's sake alakazam in nat dex ubers right now after it got mega evolution
Why do people bring up an unofficial format not replicable on cart?
@@skeetermania3202 because it is a pseudo extention and a hypothetocal ground that shows how cut pokemon will work in a new gen,it shall very well be taken into consideration
@@resurrection7480 I think it’s best if we focus on metas that are actually replicable.
@@resurrection7480 Even as a hypothetical, it’s flawed. National Dex includes stuff like transfer move combinations no longer possible, moves that have been removed in later gens (hello, Pursuit), older gen gimmicks like Mega Evolution and Z-moves, and obviously an infinitely vast roster.
A vape ad on a Pokémon video is crazy lol.
My school has a decently sized vaping problem but i dont trust ths with a single cell of my body
I remember back in the day they had crit based teams with sniper Pokemon and scope lens that would use gmax Machamp to increase their crit rate even further. It was an interesting ladder team
Here's a good use for Tera Bug: Hisuian Samurott. It flips two weaknesses into resists (Fighting and Grass) and turns the other three (Electric, Fairy and Bug itself) into neutral. Also gives STAB X-Scissor that is already getting Sharpness buff. Also-also I think some people use Bug for Ceruledge too?
If anything, Ice would be worse, defensively speaking... but offensively it's much better (BoltBeam go brrrrr)
Tera Bug on both Hisuian Samurott and Ceruledge is really good defensively, actually
Marowak suffered pretty badly with Z-Moves because it's so dependent on having a Thick Club to be a competent attacker.
Advertising FUM for a young audience such as Pokemon-enthusiasts is a bad move in my opinion
8:39 this is true but only because Roaring Moon is banned
Surprised you didn’t consider Tyranitar with Tera. If you Tera your Tyranitar into a type that isn’t Rock, Ground, or Steel, you let it take damage from its own Sandstorm.
Also, I don’t completely agree with your take on Mega Alakazam. Trace gives this thing many strong matchups. Tracing Beast Boost or Soul Heart is obviously scary for a Pokémon that strong. Tracing Swift Swim from Mega Swampert and being faster than it is also really good (and obviously that’s good against Sand Rush or Chlorophyll too).
I think that gigantamax would be better if it was certain moves that give them their signature max moves and not just all moves of a certain type
This thumbnail was hinted during the Champion League Podcast and what a sick thumbnail this is!
Theres a group on roblox that sneakily released pokemon brick bronze again and its pvp is basically a metagame of its own, as you can have mega evolution, z moves and gen 9 pokemons all in the same game.
What im saying is you can actually give scale shot to mega garchomp.
You have no idea of the fun i had.
Defensive Tera Bug on Garganacl is actually REALLY good in Doubles OU on Smogon. It trips up the opponent an inappropriately common amount of times
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Honestly think Style would be a keeper if they make one alteration: only 1 style, but this "Altered Style" varies from move to move.
Also while Ice is a great OFFENSIVE Tera Type as it just hits so much for super effective damage, it’s a horrible DEFENSIVE Tera Type due to its weaknesses to steel, fighting, fire, and rock. The main way you’d ideally want to use this Tera type would be to take a bulky Pokémon with set up moves, set up, Tera ice, and just out speed and kill everything.
Or just be a Regieleki. That things a monster with ice type Tera blast.
Ice is also weak to steel, btw, even though it doesn’t come up as often as its other weaknesses. Steel types are common and enough of them carry STAB for fairies that ice types need to still be wary of it.
@@FireFog44 They mentioned Steel.
Haha, the only G-Max Pokémon I used in Sword was actually a Flapple. I got it in a trade and it had Hustle, so I figured I'd give it a try, but you're definitely right, a regular Dynamax one would have been better.
I don’t know what it should do differently. I don’t understand what’s bad about lowering your opponent’s evasiveness.
That America analogy was rather interesting, never thought about something like that for an analogy. I would never have thought that poison Tera type was considered a bad Tera type. Looks like I’ll have to fix my Clodsire then. Great video, even if a little heavy on competitive, love your stuff keep up the good work!
If speed was the only drawback, mega garchomp wouldnt be necessarily worse than Garchomp, the main problem is that it requires an item slot and a Mega slot, unlike regular garchomp.
Generation 5 B&W did introduce the gems which boosted the power of their corresponding type move by 50%. However it was limited to the first use of that offensive type move that matched the gem.
It's funny how they immedietly decided it's a bad idea in Gen 6. So not only did they nerf these things, they also barely even gave them to the player. The fairy one exists, but has never been accessible to the player.
most use Tera Bug got was during the Mewtwo raids, since it was one of the best types for Mew to beat Mewtwo
Whilst bad defensively Tera Psychic does see some offensive use on Expanding Force + Psy Terrrain abusers to just make the spread nuke hit even harder
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I'm surprised there's no mention of Tera being bad on Protean users (Greninja, Cinderace, Meowscarada, etc) since it completely stifles their ability
Dual stab mons with adaptability lose the adaptability bonus when they terra from the type they don’t tera into. So crawdaunt loses adaptability boost on his dark moves if he goes with tera-water 😭
I think one of the worst gimmicks in pokemon is being required to trade to evolve certain pokemon.
Given that the US has the largest military in the world, I very much can imagine us getting taxed less at the cost of having a smaller military.
As useless as Pikachu’s Z-Moves are, Guardian of Alola, the Tapus' signature Z-Move, isn't great: a move that cuts the target's current HP by 75%, based on a move that similarly can't KO a Pokémon with more than 1 HP, learned by three Pokémon (Koko, Lele, and Bulu) who are strong enough to OHKO opponents with regular moves.
Surprised you didn't at least mention Ice Teratype. I mean, yeah, Ice is a damn good type offensively, but we all know how notoriously awful it is in terms of defenses. Even worse, they got rid of Hail this generation, so that's one less defensive benefit that the typing could've had.
BTW, thank you for acknowledging Poison's defensive utilities. Even before Fairy better justified using it, defense has arguably been Poison's strong suit. I mean, an Earthquake weakness sucks, for sure, but its only other weakness is Psychic (as was brought up in regards to its lackluster Teratype, it's a type that doesn't see a terribly huge amount of usage, albeit a lot of ubers have it). Meanwhile, it gets 5 resistances...... not the best ones, granted, but very few other types can boast such sheer numbers, and at least one of them is an exceptionally valuable Fighting resist, not to mention a Toxic immunity. Overall, seems like it makes up for that glaring Earthquake weakness quite well.
"one less defensive benefit"
I guess someone hasn't head of Snow yet, which actually gives a true defensive benefit you claim they've lost. Now Snow Warning + Aurora Veil is more defensive than ever before--and it's about time Ice was given more than niche benefit from Weather.
Tera Ice isn't that common but it still usable. Regieleki was banned in OU because of Ice Tera Blast after all. You could also run it on stuff like Iron Bundle for extra Blizzard power in VGC
@@vitaminslk Haven't kept up too much with the competitive scene lately, but how was Regieleki that dangerous? Doesn't its Ability work exclusively with its Electric STAB, no other type? I guess Tera Blast would give it a Bolt-Beam combo, but I don't know how it'd be that much worse than the billion other Pokemon that run it.
If u do an opposite I can see Kommo-o on here cause tera did help it alot
To this day, giving Pikachu a Z-Move that requires it holds a Z-Crystal is one of the most baffling decisions Game Freak has made.
Even with the National Dex cuts from Gen 8 on, they at least have the excuse that it saves up file space (though the only real answer to that is... optimize your game's files, Game Freak) and cuts down on a bit of development time, especially now that Gen 9 introduced a bunch of new overworld and battle animations. Giving Pikachu a bunch of Z-Moves just makes it _weaker,_ prevents them from giving those Z-Moves to other mons that don't rely on their held items in battle, and wastes the time that is spent on animating and coding in those Z-Moves.
If those Z-Crystals also gave the Light Ball boost while being held, then sure. But instead you just get a worse Pikachu that eats up gameplay time for lower damage.
It's the mascot. They gave it Z-Moves because of that. It's not that deep.
Wow, I am surprised Gamefreak would give Pikachu's Z moves such weak attack power. They put a ton of effort into the animation(5:09).
My Mega was Aerodactyl; I IV bred and EV Trained it specifically to outspeed and one-shot Mega Garchomp. I did it to one person and they immediately D/C'd
It was so cool when ash used 10 million volt thunder bolt against Steven stone I thought for it missed but when it found a way through and redirected the remaining energy from the attack into stevens Pokémon so cool. Definitely a much stronger move in the anime
Imagine having your Speed lowered by a power up.
A SpongeBob Pokèmon would be CRAZY
I can speak from personal experience that a Tera Poison Pokemon with Levitate is a NIGHTMARE to fight, especially if they're originally Dark or Ghost Type, which gives them a way to deal with Psychic Types, they're only consistent weakness.
I use tera psychic on Chien Pao with psychic fang. He gets rid of screens and hits fighting mom's hard along with poison Pokemon.
Catastropika can still be used before getting the thunderstone in usum
Was this the thumbnail the champs reacted to? 🔥🔥🔥
Tera Poison is actually great alternative to Tera Steel. Many Ground and Dark types use it, and its a great alternative to Steel on bulky sweeps because you’re still immune to Toxic and resist Fighting while being neutral to Fire. It also pairs well with Levitate users because you only get 1 weakness.
For Tera I’d honestly say Tyranitar is the only “bad” user. If you Tera into something other than Rock, Ground, or Steel, you hit yourself in Sand and anything besides Rock you lose your x1.5 SpD boost in Sand.
That thumbnail made my day
Psychic deserves a few buffs, it's been getting screwed over for generations all because Game Freak couldn't program properly back in the Game Boy era. I agree it's not a great defensive choice though, but I'll still love it (and Alakazam). What were they thinking with some of the Mega designs?
1:GMax / DMax
2: Tera
3: Z moves
4: Megas
Ohhhh, that makes individual Pokemon worse, rioigghhttt, not that make Pokemon worse.....
Giga Kudos for whoever designed the thumbnail!
They should of made mega alkazam the first four stage evolution hopefully in the next gen we dont get things like this just more evolution branches or something
The tax joke caught me off guard good one
I mean 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt has 50% chance to crit.
Bro Tera Poison is without a doubt one of the best defensive teras in VGC. The runner up of the 2023 World Championships had a Tera Poison Rillaboom. And resits the #1 used mon in Flutter Mane. And Tera Bug made some niche uses for defensive pivots like Heatran. But Psychic (unless used on a Psy-spam Armarouge set) is the worst tera type. There's a reason why all those Psychic Tera shards we got from the Mewtwo raid are still unused
Love the thumbnail! Keep making great content!
Mega garchomp is actually more viable than you think in the official format
It's just smogon where speed defines everything
And Tera poison is amazing
Trust me
I would say Mega Evolution was peak 3d Pokemon but Legends Arceus exists
This is the best thumbnail ever.